Alabama Organizing Project

Now Recruiting for 2012

The Alabama Organizing Project, a unique statewide collaboration of six groups, is now recruiting for its 2012 Grassroots Leadership Development (GLD) class. In 2011 we graduated 18 emerging leaders from across the state, representing diverse communities and constituencies. They learned to build together and shared information and strategies on key issues like tax and immigration reform. Now we are looking for members to join our class of 2012. Are you interested in working with others to build statewide capacity and momentum for progressive change? Could you use our trainings to move your community forward? Do you have what it takes to represent the next generation of leadership for Alabama?

Be a Leader!

Essential Training for Leadership

"As a result of this training, I am now visible in my community, elected officials know I am there, and people are calling me to express their concerns on upcoming issues.”

“It is great to be in the presence of individuals who are passionate about the work they are doing. It is an affirmation for me that I am not alone and my work is not and will not be in vain.”

Collaboration for Social Change

For fifteen years, the Alabama Organizing Project (AOP) has been training the future leaders of Alabama to speak out and educate others for social justice. AOP assists organizations in the state to work collaboratively in empowering their constituents – many of whom are low income people – to find policy, program and developmental solutions to problems of poverty in a state where democratic empowerment has historically been frustrated by racial, economic and social fragmentation.

Alabama Comes Together

AOP is a unique collaboration of six organizations: Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, the Alabama Coalition Against Hunger, the Federation of Child Care Centers of Alabama, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama. AOP organizations work together to build statewide organizing capacity while extending their own networks and supporting their own agendas.